PREVALENCE OF NURSING DIAGNOSIS IMBALANCED NUTRITION IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS
| Autor: | Marília Araripe Ferreira, Annah Maria Couto Bezerra Carneiro, Mayenne Myrcea Quintino Pereira Valente, Virna Ribeiro Feitosa Cestari, Maria Albertina Rocha Diógenes, Léa Maria Moura Barroso Diógenes |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Cogitare Enfermagem, Vol 21, Iss 3, Pp 01-08 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1414-8536 2176-9133 |
| DOI: | 10.5380/ce.v21i3.48942 |
| Popis: | The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of Nursing Diagnosis Imbalanced Nutrition: more than bodyrequirements in hypertensive patients. Exploratory, descriptive study,with a quantitative approach, with 90 hypertensive patientsmonitored in a secondary care unit. Data collection was performed in 2015 through the administration of a questionnaire onsociodemographic, anthropometric and clinical characteristics of the patients. Categorical variables were summarized by descriptive statistics of frequencies (absolute and relative). Associations between major defining characteristics and diagnosis of imbalanced nutrition wereassessed by Pearson’s chi-square test. The referred diagnosis was observed in 82 (91.1%) of the participants, since they presented at least one of the two major defining characteristics: “tricepsskinfold thickness” (p |
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